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Oral History

  1. by order of the king
    ‘I Still Don’t Know What It Was’An oral history of Kings, the ambitious, expensive, and admittedly weird drama on which NBC bet its prestige-TV future and lost.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk and Jackson McHenry
  2. backstories
    ‘There Couldn’t Be Any Normal Scenes in This Movie’Damien Chazelle and his collaborators explain Babylon in three key scenes.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  3. oral history
    An Oral History of ‘David Pumpkins’The story of Saturday Night Live’s most improbable breakout character.
    By Jesse David Fox
  4. backstories
    An Oral History of Lilo & StitchThe beloved Disney movie made in a “secret hangar” that almost brought hand-drawn animation back.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  5. a whole lotta woman
    ‘She Wanted to Be Fantastic’An oral history of Beyoncé in Austin Powers: Goldmember, a goofy anomaly in a now-rarefied pop career.
    By Matthew Jacobs
  6. putting the atoms together
    ‘No Aliens, No Spaceships, No Invasion of Earth’An oral history of Contact, the sci-fi movie that defied Hollywood norms and made it big anyway.
    By Rachel Handler
  7. community theater
    ‘We Should Hate It, But It Works’An oral history of the inexplicably star-studded, hallucinogenic ending of Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again.
    By Rachel Handler
  8. oral history
    How Blue Man Group Blew UpAn oral history of the wildly successful show, starring strange bald men painted in Yves Klein blue.
    By Molly Langmuir
  9. backstories
    The Little Streaming Comedy Platform That Couldn’tAn oral history of Seeso, NBCUniversal’s short-lived, extremely doomed comedy experiment.
    By Will Storey
  10. the vampire chronicles
    An Oral History of Queen of the DamnedHow an Anne Rice novel became a Hollywood saga involving Aaliyah and the guy from Korn.
    By Matthew Jacobs
  11. book excerpt
    Mac Miller Found Freedom on FacesAn oral history of Mac Miller’s 2014 opus, now available on streaming services for the first time, excerpted from The Book of Mac.
    By Donna-Claire Chesman
  12. oral history
    ‘What’s the Best and Worst Day of Your Life?’How System of a Down’s “Chop Suey!” tore up the airwaves — before getting banned post–9/11.
    By Jeremy Gordon
  13. backstories
    ‘Look at Me Like a Human Boy!’An oral history of Clifford, the 1994 cult comedy about a deranged little boy played by Martin Short.
    By Rob Turbovsky
  14. oral histories
    The Oral History of Madonna’s Truth or DareMadonna’s seminal 1991 documentary had few precedents. That’s why it can’t be replicated today.
    By Matthew Jacobs
  15. let there be kronk
    ‘We’ll Never Make That Kind of Movie Again’An oral history of The Emperor’s New Groove, a raucous Disney animated film that almost never happened.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  16. oral history
    An Oral History of Election Night 2016 at MSNBCWhat it was like to cover the news on the day that gave us the past four years.
    By Jen Chaney
  17. lux aeterna
    An Oral History of Requiem for a DreamDarren Aronofsky’s 2000 movie is the work of artists who hadn’t yet been told what they could and couldn’t do.
    By Alison Willmore
  18. kristy’s great idea
    An Oral History of The Baby-Sitters Club MovieFrom first kisses to first periods to narrowly avoided perms, inside the making of a ’90s sleepover classic.
    By Jessica Goldstein
  19. dance the sh*t out of it
    An Oral History of Center StageHow 24 pairs of leather pants, a tearaway tutu, and red pointe shoes made for a generation’s greatest dance movie.
    By Chloe Angyal
  20. oral history
    An Oral History of How BoJack Horseman Almost Killed BoJack HorsemanThe show’s creators on making a trippy, creepy, death-obsessed penultimate episode.
    By Jen Chaney
  21. 25 days of cats
    An Oral History of Cats, As Told by Its Original Cats“It became this joke. But it was the most spectacular thing of its time.”
    By Molly Langmuir
  22. oral history
    I Think You Should Leave’s ‘Focus Group’ Sketch: An Oral History“They called me in and were like, ‘I think we just discovered a star.’”
    By Jesse David Fox
  23. reality tv
    Jersey Shore: An Oral History“It was like zebras in the Serengeti. We wanted to see this in action. Where does that happen? The Jersey Shore.”
    By Molly Fitzpatrick
  24. fall preview 2019
    The Hustle Behind HustlersHow do you get a film about rich white men getting scammed made in an industry run by rich white men? First step: Get J.Lo to sign on.
    By Rachel Handler
  25. backstories
    The Season SNL Embraced Its Old, Weird Self AgainThe show’s writers walk us through the highlights from a year when they dialed back the Trump.
    By Dave Schilling
  26. remember that time
    An Oral History of the Eyes Wide Shut OrgyStaging that scene from Stanley Kubrick’s divisive final film.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  27. scene to meme
    ‘Not Great, Bob!’: The Making of Mad Men’s Greatest MemeThe writers and actors behind season six’s “In Care Of” take us behind the scenes of the elevator confrontation that will live on in pixelated infamy.
    By Whitney Friedlander
  28. backstories
    An Oral History of Game of Thrones, As Told By Its Bit Players“Do you know how they keep cattle? That’s sort of how they keep us.”
    By Dan Reilly and Lila Shapiro
  29. behind the scenes
    How Shrill Made Its Dream ‘Fat Babe Pool Party’ a Reality“I almost cried because it was so beautiful. I just really wanted it to feel like a dream.”
    By Allison Shoemaker
  30. book excerpt
    How BoJack Horseman Got MadeThe origins of TV’s favorite alcoholic, narcissistic, self-destructive talking horse.
    By Chris McDonnell
  31. oral histories
    ‘The Sketch That Always Plays Hot’An oral history of Saturday Night Live’s “Black Jeopardy.”
    By Dave Schilling
  32. An Oral History of The Americans Series FinaleBehind “START,” one of the finest series-enders of the modern TV era.
    By Jen Chaney
  33. oral history
    How Get Out, the First Great Movie of the Trump Era, Got MadeIt began as a rebuke to Obama-inspired dreams of racial harmony and became a conduit for fears reignited by the rise of the new president.
    By Jada Yuan and Hunter Harris
  34. An Oral History of the Time Bob Costas Had Pink Eye at the Sochi Olympics“The decision to take him off air was … not difficult.”
    By Kelly Conaboy
  35. The Disaster Artist: An Oral HistoryHow James Franco and friends brought the story behind the 21st century’s biggest cult film to life.
    By Nate Jones
  36. oral history
    The Oral History of Seinfeld’s ‘The Contest’Larry David & Co. remember when the sitcom mastered its domain.
    By Jen Chaney
  37. A Deep Dive Into BoJack Horseman’s Dementia EpisodeRaphael Bob-Waksberg, writer Kate Purdy, and animator Lisa Hanawalt explain how they made “Time’s Arrow.”
    By Jen Chaney
  38. The Story Behind The Simpsons’ Legendary Planet of the Apes MusicalInside the process that one writer calls “a magic visit from the joke fairy.”
    By Jesse David Fox
  39. hirings and firings
    All the Reasons Jean-Claude Van Damme Was Allegedly Fired From PredatorHe kept passing out, or he wanted the Predator to kickbox, or he broke the head of the costume. Who knows!
    By Ethan Sapienza
  40. The Complete Oral History of “The Star Spangled Banner” (Fictionalized […] The following is the complete oral history of Francis Scott Key’s “The Star Spangled Banner.” Certain quotes and other elements have been […]
    By Brian Boone
  41. oral history
    How the Strokes — and the Early-Aughts New York Rock Boom — Went BustThe inside story of the last moment of the last great rock band, told by the people who lived it.
    By Lizzy Goodman
  42. oral history
    Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher on the Making of Gorillaz’s ‘We Got the Power’“I thought it might be cute, Noel and I singing about the power to love each other. Of course, no one’s asked Liam what he thinks about the song yet.”
    By Lane Brown
  43. vulture cover story
    How Crash Crashed the OscarsAn oral history of a Best Picture shocker.
    By Stacey Wilson Hunt
  44. oral history
    An Oral History of MADtv, the Sketch Show That Never Quite Changed Comedy“When we did impressions, they were pretty mean. Britney Spears at one point saw me, and her bodyguard very not-so-subtly pushed me about seven feet away from her.”
    By Tim Greiving
  45. oral history
    Book Excerpt: The Union of the State “When I first met Tom Lennon, I thought he was the snootiest prick in the world.” —Joe Lo Truglio 
    By Corey Stulce
  46. RENT: The Oral HistoryTwenty years after Jonathan Larson’s posthumous triumph arrived on Broadway, the cast relives the rise of a musical that changed theater.
    By Rebecca Milzoff
  47. oral history
    An Oral History of Patrice O’Neal’s ‘Elephant in the Room’The story behind one of Comedy Central’s most beloved specials of all time.
    By Eddie Brawley
  48. high school tv showdown
    An Oral History of the Nerdier Half of Freaks and GeeksWhat it was really like behind the scenes for the geek squad.
    By Jennifer Vineyard
  49. beefs
    Columbus Directed Home Alone Because Chevy ChaseColumbus says Chase treated him “like dirt.”
    By Ira Madison III
  50. swoon
    The Oral History of Clueless’s Climactic KissAn excerpt from the new As If!: The Oral History of Clueless.
    By Jen Chaney
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